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Enchantment Land
Multiple symbol
Multiple Card Types
Subtypes Enchantment type
Land type
Storm Scale 5[1]
Statistics
2 cards
{C} 50% {M} 50%
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type:"Enchantment Land"

An enchantment land is a Magic: The Gathering card with both the enchantment and the land types.[2]

History[ | ]

Players often wondered if enchantment lands had been considered for the "enchantment matters" Theros block. Mark Rosewater admitted that R&D's experience with artifact lands (which turned out way too powerful) scared them off from even trying, especially with Constellation in the mix.[3][4][5] It would have been a problem even if the enchantment land was legendary.[6][7] Even one enchantment land would have forced development to raise the costs of all the cards with the Constellation mechanic.[8]

Enchantment land first appeared on a test card in the Mystery Booster set (Enchanted Prairie).

Rosewater assumed enchantment lands would appear in a regular set one day (possibly in a supplemental set) but most likely not in a set where “enchantments matter”.[9] The first black-bordered enchantment land, Urza's Saga, indeed appeared in Modern Horizons 2.[2] However, the second enchantment land, Valgavoth's Lair, defied Rosewater's expectation, as Duskmourn: House of Horror was a set with a major enchantment focus. This came about after R&D had made some artifact lands that weren’t as problematic, and realizing they could safely make enchantment ones.[10]

The Storm Scale is at a middling 5, as most scaling enchantment effects are carefully regulated, but the enchantment land would need to make sense in the set otherwise.[1]

Ruling[ | ]

  • Playing an enchantment land as a land uses a land drop, the same as playing an artifact land.[11]

References[ | ]

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